Duke Bushido Posted January 16, 2022 Report Share Posted January 16, 2022 Sitting in the parking lot at the Pop Vault of the little nowhere town of Jesup, GA (you know: jes' up de road from Brunswick. ) Stopped here with Noisy and went and plundered a few vintage games. The kid at the register starts adding things up and I ask him "hang on a minute. Do you mind if she runs out to the truck and makes sure these things boot up?" I placed my driver's liscence and a C-note on the counter. "I will stay here till she gets back." "Oh sure--" then something clicks in his forebrain. "You have a PlayStation 1 in your truck?" Noisy looks at him and says "and a 2 and a Sega Genesis." Blank look from the kid behind the counter. Finally, "you're messing with me." "In my defense, it's a really old truck. It was a cool thing to do at the time." Noisy again "Oh, and a DVD player, but mostly we just put movies on our tablets." The she grabs the stack of disks and heads to truck. "You're serious?" I just nodded. "Dude. When the kids are little, they get bored by the scenery on road trips, when they start to get cranky, I push a button and suggest they play a game with each other. Worked great when they were little." "No PS 3? Or 4? Or 5?" The only place to get a 5 in this country is from a scalper, and I am not doing that, and the others- I need to build output adapters to make them compatible with the headrests and sun visors, but at this point, the kids have kind of outgrown the need for travel video games, so I never got around to doing it." "You're serious?" Noisy came back in and handed him one game (Defender for PS2). "This one doesnt work, but the others are fine." Then she turned to me. "Can I play Spy Hunter on the way to Brunswick?" "Keep the volume down." I am currently taking a minute to post this while the sales kid is rooting around in the back seat of the of the Leviathan. He apparently has never actually played a PS1, and I think I am stuck here until another customer shows up. Noisy is cutrently spanking his butt in Tekken 2. Ternaugh, Tjack and Chris Goodwin 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 17, 2022 Report Share Posted January 17, 2022 "Are you threatening me?" "Don't think of it as a threat. Think of it as an opportunity to reflect upon the potential negative consequences of treating people like crap." Duke Bushido and Tjack 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 19, 2022 Report Share Posted January 19, 2022 "As beautiful as cinema is, it's a massive part of the problem of why we look at ourselves in the way we do." ~Florence Pugh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 24, 2022 Report Share Posted January 24, 2022 "When it's grim, be the grim reaper. Go get it." ~Andy Reid, to Patrick Mahomes with 13 seconds left in regulation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Bushido Posted January 30, 2022 Report Share Posted January 30, 2022 So I showed this picture to my wife: "You see?" I said. If we were still a bit younger, that totally could have been us." "No;" she chided. "We weren't _both_ that stupid." Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Bushido Posted February 8, 2022 Report Share Posted February 8, 2022 Sunday morning a friend stopped by the house- obe of my,players from the Brunswick group that is looking at Year 3 of corona hiatus. he was on his way to join a group doing Warhammer 40k RPG and stopped to see if I was interested. my kids arw only familar with 3 games: they know what D and D is; they play Champions in the youth group, and I have run a coyple of games of classic Traveller at the house. they were quite curious about RPG talk (the youth group hasn't played regularly since Corona) and pushed closer and closer. Finally, seeing that I wasnt interested and that the conversation was nearly over, my daughter just butt in with "what is Warhammer 40k?" Without skipping a beat, without looking up from her book, my wife replied "Catholic Traveller," and I don't think I have ever been more profoundly struck with epiphany in my life. L. Marcus and Chris Goodwin 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 14, 2022 Report Share Posted February 14, 2022 Quote When it comes to mascots for Valentine’s day, people don’t typically think about sea squirts: blobby, headless creatures that spend their lives stuck to the sea floor. I dunno. That sounds like a lot like my early experiences with Valentine's day, and had I known about these things before, I would have cheerfully adopted them as a personal symbol for the day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted February 26, 2022 Report Share Posted February 26, 2022 Me: *coughing* Coworkers: Uh oh, COVID! Me: No, it's not COVID, it's Swine Flu! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted February 27, 2022 Report Share Posted February 27, 2022 "I make it a point never to apologize for being better educated than people I meet online. The way I see it, it's not really my fault." tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 2, 2022 Report Share Posted March 2, 2022 "Sorry, we can't accept the proposal as submitted, because half of it is missing. The PDF you sent us only has the odd-numbered pages." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted March 2, 2022 Report Share Posted March 2, 2022 "Guilt and grief are not nice bedfellows. Both have a habit of taking the covers and farting loudly." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 8, 2022 Report Share Posted March 8, 2022 Quote How much risk do we as instructors take in our courses? We faculty have a privilege by virtue of our positions. Do we use it in a way that encourages students to open uncomfortable or unpopular issues, or participate without fear in discussion of such issues, especially if they disagree with the instructors' opinions or those of the majority of students in their class or group? Do we teach our students to discuss the ideas, and not judge those who bring attention to the ideas? And if we do not do that, then who will? This seems like an imperative to me. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 11, 2022 Report Share Posted March 11, 2022 Despairing student voice heard from down the hall: "I forgot it was null space!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted March 17, 2022 Report Share Posted March 17, 2022 "Haumea spins fast, Pluto WAS a planet, and Ceres is a glorified asteroid." tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted March 18, 2022 Report Share Posted March 18, 2022 "Geddy Lee looks like an intergalactic time-traveling wizard." Tjack 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tjack Posted March 18, 2022 Report Share Posted March 18, 2022 31 minutes ago, Pariah said: "Geddy Lee looks like an intergalactic time-traveling wizard." Are we sure he’s not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted March 18, 2022 Report Share Posted March 18, 2022 I am not sure, no. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted March 28, 2022 Report Share Posted March 28, 2022 "Concurrent enrollment Geology - Rocks for Jocks." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted April 15, 2022 Report Share Posted April 15, 2022 Family members watching TV, a drama, not a horror story: "Don't you think he looks like a vampire?" "He's an unwrapped mummy!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted April 20, 2022 Report Share Posted April 20, 2022 "The Last Jedi was a traumatic movie." "No, it wasn't!" "Yes, it was! It killed my love for Star Wars." "That's the most dramatic thing you've ever said!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted April 20, 2022 Report Share Posted April 20, 2022 My wife bought our new puppy a toy called a "wobble wag giggle ball." It makes weird noises as it rolls around. When my daughter came by to visit and heard the ball, my youngest immediately swore and then asked, "Did you have to get something that sounds like Donald Duck having a stroke?" tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 23, 2022 Report Share Posted April 23, 2022 Quote Alexa, play AC/DC, loud. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted April 24, 2022 Report Share Posted April 24, 2022 "Do you want to hear some epic smelting music?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted April 24, 2022 Report Share Posted April 24, 2022 "So he's both British and American!" "If you're both British and American, doesn't that make you Canadian?" "Unless you're American and French." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted April 25, 2022 Report Share Posted April 25, 2022 4 hours ago, Pariah said: "So he's both British and American!" "If you're both British and American, doesn't that make you Canadian?" "Unless you're American and French." What if you're from Quebec? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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